ABSTRACT
This chapter is far the most valuable when undertaken by the children individually; but children’s powers vary so greatly that it is impossible to draw a hard and fast line between books which can be studied by the children themselves and books whose material must be re-told by the teacher. Such a volume as Miss Stawell’s Story of the Iliad, for instance, is valuable for teachers to tell or read to very young children and for older children to read by themselves. The ideal would be for every class-room to contain in a separate case or rest a number of the books recommended in this section for the period to be studied, and for some of these books to be read by the children in private study periods, while others are used by the teacher for story telling, or for illustrative material to give life and interest to lessons.
